Shepherd of Hermas, Similitude 8.3.7 (69.7)

Hermas · Shepherd of Hermas: Similitudes · ca. 100–150 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Those afflicted but not killed, who did not deny, are sealed.

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Greek text · Lake, LCL 25:196–198

οἱ δὲ ἕτεροι καὶ αὐτοὶ χλωρὰς τὰς ῥάβδους ἐπιδεδωκότες καὶ παραφυάδας ἐχούσας, καρπὸν δὲ μὴ ἐχούσας οἱ ὑπὲρ τοῦ νόμου θλιβέντες, μὴ παθόντες δὲ μηδὲ ἀρνησάμενοι τὸν νόμον αὐτῶν.

English · Claude translation

And the others, who also gave back their sticks green and with shoots, but without fruit, are those who were afflicted for the law but did not suffer, nor did they deny their law.

About this passage

Source: Lake, LCL 25:196–198 · Kirsopp Lake, ed. and trans., The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 2, LCL 25 (London: Heinemann; New York: Macmillan, 1913), 138–305 · Greek text: K. Lake, The Apostolic Fathers (LCL, 1912-1913), digitized by the Perseus Digital Library and published by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text: As printed in Lake, LCL 25. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-26 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Lake (LCL 25, 1913), and from the ancient Latin version where Lake prints it because the Greek is lost (from Sim. 9.30.3); made independently of existing English translations.
Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 2 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)
Topics: Persecution

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Herm. Sim. 8.3.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/3/7/).

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Herm. Sim. 8.3.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/herm-sim/8/3/7/).

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